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[QUOTE]Originally posted by fastpat
[B]No, that's both a lie and the "usual" slur hurled when someone that idolizes the Lincoln Cult. The very idea that anyone inside libertarianism would support slavery is absurd.

What is the diff between support and defend ?
You seem to be defending the Southern "right" to slavery .

[b]
What government was that? The US government wanted areas of land protected for "free, white labor" and said so many times. Is that your position? Lincoln himself wanted to deport all black people within the US, your position too?

Lincoln himself realized that was not a solution.
The govt I was referring to was that of the south and its interest in preserving and spreading slavery.

[b]
Not one of my neighbors owns slaves, nor have any of them owned slaves. In fact, at the height of chattel slavery, only 20% of the population in the Confederate States owned slaves, among those were quite a few black slave owners.

It's not the percentage of owners that matters but the number of slaves they owned.

I fail to see how you can read any archival material from the era leading up to the war and not see that slavery was the root of it all. Really, there is no escaping it. Not propaganda but historical record.